Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3178, Edward Dyer, N.H.

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Dyer, Edward Elizabeth
R 3178 B.L. No. 53,680-160-55
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260.841 acct Jan 1855
Nov 1855
Elizabeth Dyer in Edward Dyer's name Pioneer
Capt. Webster
Col. Chas. Johnson Pioneer N. H. Mills Ent. June 1 1780 Dis Dec 21 1781. N. H. Mills Rev. War.
Ohio has some ad 1600 ac's Jany 7/57 Dodge
9 Geo. C. Ames. Present.
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Province of Upper Canada County of Middlesex
On this 21 st day of September  October
A.D. 1856. Personally appeared before me Lionel Bedout, a justice of the peace within and for the County and Province aforesaid. Elizabeth Dyer aged 80 years a resident of London in the County of Middlesex and Province of Upper Canada who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Edward Dyer deceased who was a private soldier in the company of Captain Webster in the Regiment commanded by Charles Johnson in the war of the Revo- lution - That her said husband enlisted into the service of the United States on or about the first day of June A.D. 1780 for the term of three years. That at the time of his said enlistment the said Edward Dyer resided in the town of Northfield, in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, and entered the said service at Waverhill N.H. on or about the 1 st day of June 1780 and continued in actual service in said war for the term of fourteen days and upwards, and was honorably discharged on or about the 31 st day of December A.D. 1781. as will appear by the records of his said service - She further declares that before the death of her said husband he made a declaration under the act of 7 th June 1832 to obtain a pension for himself on account of his said service and that his said claim was suspended - That at the time of making his said application the said Edward Dyer resided at Painesville Lake County, in the State of Ohio - She further declares that she was married to the said Edward Dyer at New Salisbury in the State of New Hampshire on the  sometime during the year of our Lord 1791 by a clergy- man by the name of Walster, and that her said husband died in Township of London, in the County of Middlesex and Province of Canada on the 31 st day of January A.D. 1852 and that she is still a widow - She also further declares that she has no private record of her marriage to the said Edward Dyer nor of his death

and does not know of the existence of any public or private record of either such marriage or death — She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the act of Congress passed March 3 d A. D. 1855. She also declares that she has never received any Bounty Land Warrant under this or any other act of Congress, and has never before applied for Bounty Land.
Elizabeth Dyer
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before me at the City of Toronto in the County of Middlesex in Upper Canada Vincent Vidon
We Alexander S. Abbott and Henry C. Hughes residents of the County of Middlesex in the Province of Upper Canada upon our Oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Elizabeth Dyer in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Alex S. Abbott H. C. Hughes
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in the said claim and am not concerned in its prosecution.
Vincent Vidon

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Edwards Dyers Ohio
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June 28 to Nov 22 d 1782 Tm days
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Messrs. Perkins & Osborn Pernisville Lake Co. Ohio.

State of Ohio Lake County p: 3
On the fourteenth day of March 1843 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Lake now sitting Edward Dyer a resident of Concord in said County of Lake and State of Ohio aged eighty four years the twelfth day of May 1842 last past who being duly sworn according to Law doth make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
In the month of June and as he believes the first day of the month in the year 1781 he resided in the Town of Northfield, in the County then called Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire. In the Call for Troops from the State of New Hampshire, Northfield Township was to raise two and this applicant and Reuben Keiser of said Northfield on the first of June 1781 enlisted with the Selectmen of the said Township of Northfield to serve in the New Hampshire Line of the United States Troops for three years or during the war. Between the first day of June & the first day of July 1781 this applicant went to Antrim in said State of New Hampshire to keep muster and enter the service in company with said Keiser and in arriving at Antrim he was on the day found the Troops had left the morning of that day on which they arrived in the evening. This applicant reported himself to the Muster Master at Antrim, and was by him told to return to Northfield and hold himself in readiness to march at a minute's warning. This applicant therefore returned to Northfield and remained for one year in constant readiness to march at a minute's warning, not entering upon or transacting any business more than to pay his board.
On the first day of June 1782 he was required to appear

by the said Muster Master whose name he can not recollect, at Haverhill from Amos in the County of Grafton in said New Hampshire that he immediately marched to Haverhill a distance of sixty miles from said Northfield, and was attached to the Company commanded by Captain Ebenezer Tibbetts in the Regiment commanded by Charles Johnson Colonel. One Smith was Lieutenant he cannot state his first name. We served there in the fort under the command of said officers for the full period of six months until the first day of December 1782.
There was only the Regiment of Col. Johnson stationed there which was to serve as a protection to the Settlements against the Canadians, Indians & Tories. There was a fort at Haverhill and also a block-house across the Connietical River on the Vermont side which was also under the command of Col. Johnson. He was in no engagement and on the first of December 1782 was dismissed to return home to said Northfield until he should receive orders there being no apprehension of danger until Spring. No discharge was given him or any of the Company as it was expected they would again be called out in the Spring but the next train place was decided and he was never called out afterwards. He remembers the following persons who were in the Company of Capt. Tibbetts with him - two of the names of Sirens & Michael Johnson born Col. Johnson
This Applicant has no documentary evidence and knows of no person of whom his said case be proved. He left the State of New Hampshire more than forty years since during the most of which time he has lived in the Canadas which is the reason why he has never applied for a pension and has lost all trace of his old Companions if they are still living.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present; and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State.
Edward the Dyer mark

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid John W. Corcoran Clerk
We J. Broughton a Chugyman residing in the Town of Concord County of Lake and State of Ohio and Nathan Walch Jr. residing in the said Town of Concord hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Edward Dyer who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be righty some years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution; and that we concur in that opinion.
J. Broughton Nathan Walch Jr.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid John W. Corcoran Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after hearing the interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and sworn as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that J. Broughton who has signed the preceding certificate is a Chugyman residing in the Town of Concord County of Lake and State of Ohio, and that Nathan Walch Jr. is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
John W. Corcoran Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Lake and State of Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Edward Dyer for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fourteenth day of March A.D. 1843. John W. Corcoran Clerk

3178!
P. O.
Edward Dyer
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized.
_____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis.
Searched for _____
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V.P. Fz. 680
Nov Am
No 35.5.11.
Edward Dyer
3178 Ohio
Suspended
Let to Perkins & Helmke June 14.45
" " E.A. Pame aft 28.1845.
2 H. Hartshill Aug 9 1853
Rejected - Did not serve
6 mos. see letter to
Mrs. H. Hartshill Feb 5. 1857.
Act of June '32
200841

Edward Dyer - 1852 Put in clock John
July 27 1852-
FREE
Hon L. P. Waldo. Commissioner of Pensions. Washington. D.C.
2 Brantwell, Gr Ulrich -

Edward Dyer Ohio. 1832
John att.
C. D.
FREE
Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.

Elizabeth Gyn
In matter of Appli- cation for a pension. Affidavis of John Ellison.
Edward Dyer John M. ...
Col
Thos. H. Hartwell

This is to certify that I John Ellison of the County of Elgin of the Province of Canada. I solemnly under oath do declare that I was personally acquainted with the late Edward Dyer of the County of Middlesex and Province aforesaid, also his Widow Elizabeth Dyer of the same place, and further declare that I know of the Marriage of the above named Parties and of their cohabiting together as Man and Wife since the year 1793. They have resided since their Marriage in the following places, viz. First in the Town of Salisbury in the State of New Hampshire U.S. from the time of their Marriage until the year 1796 from whence they removed into the Province of Lower Canada where they remained until about the year 1825 then moved into the Province of Upper Canada. County of Middlesex where the said Edward Dyer died the 30 th January 1833 I also firmly believe him to have been a Revolutionary Soldier as I have often heard him speak of his services in that war I also affirm that I have no interest whatever, directly or indirectly in making the above Statements
Witness J. C. Merrill.
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John Ellison
I hereby certify that the above declaration of John Ellison was sworn and subscribed to before me this 15 th day of Sept. 1835 I also certify that the said John Ellison is a resident of the above mentioned County of Elgin and that he is a credible and disinterested party in making the above Statements to the best of my knowledge, nor am I in any way concerned in Mrs. Elizabeth Dyer's claim for Pension
From Judge D.P.
This is to certify that the above named Duncane McMurtrie Esquire is a Justice of the Peace for this County and that his signature hereunto is genuine. I also certify that the County Court of the County of Elgin in the Province of Canada is a Court of Record for within my hand and the seal of the said Court at St. Thomas this fifteenth day of September A.D. 1835 J. P. Montague, Clerk

Province of Upper Canada County of Middlesex
On this 20 th day of September  October
A.D. 1856. Personally appeared before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and Province aforesaid, Ephraim Ayers and Warren B. Linn , aged respectively 68 and 58 years, residents of London in the County of Middlesex, and Province of Upper Canada, who being duly sworn according to law depose and swear that they have been personally well acquainted with Mrs. Elizabeth Dyer of London Middlesex County Upper Canada for more than Forty Eight years last past. That they have been also well acquainted with Edward Dyer (deceased) late of London in the County of Middlesex and Province aforesaid who was the husband of the said Elizabeth Dyer . That from the earliest acquaintance of these deponents with them the said Edward & Elizabeth Dyer lived and cohabited together as husband and wife and were reputed as such in the neighborhood where they resided and until the death of the said Edward Dyer . That the said Edward Dyer died at London Township aforesaid on or about the 31 st day of January A.D. 1852 and these deponents attended the burial of the said Edward Dyer after his said decease. That at the time of the death of the said Edward Dyer he left the said Elizabeth Dyer his widow him surviving, and that she is still a widow never having intermarried since the death of her said husband.
And further these deponents have lived in the neighborhood of the said Elizabeth Dyer both before and since the death of her said husband, and from their personal knowledge of her know and believe that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and in whose behalf this affidavit is made in her application for Bounty land herewith attached. And they also further

swear that they are disinterested witnesses
Ephraim Ayers
Subscribed and sworn to Warren Bunn
before me on the day and year above written and I certify that I know the above named witnesses are credible persons and further that I am not concerned in the prosecution of the claim in which this is to be used nor interested therein otherwise
L. Lamson London County of Middlesex Canada West
No. 141

County of Middlesex to wit } I John B. Skinner Deputy Clerk of the Crown and Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex of the Province of Canada do hereby certify that Daniel Bedant and Laurence Lawanson the Magistrates whose names are subscribed to the annexed papers and before whom the annexed declaration of Elizabeth Syers was sworn as also the witnesses thereto and the declaration of Ephraim Ayers and Warren Blair are Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex and Province of Canada duly appointed by law in Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this twenty third day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and fifty- six
Witness my J. B. Skinner [A series of seven wavy horizontal lines used as a decorative separator or to indicate the end of a section.]
J. B. Skinner Deputy Clerk of the Crown and Pleas for the County of Middlesex

In matter of Application of Edward Dyer for pension.
Detroit August 3 rd 1855.
Dear Sir,
In above I received your favor of the 27 th ult. informing me that Edward Dyer never made application for a pension. Since the receipt of your letter I have written the Atty of Edward Dyer's widow for further information and to day receive the following that said Edward Dyer made application for a pension while stopping with his son in or near Painesville, Ohio. From which place he supposes the documents were dated. In a letter from her Atty dated July 12/55. I am informed that said Edward Dyer made application about fifteen years ago which is the one made I presume at Painesville, Ohio.
Please make further examination & oblige
Respectfully Your Obedt Servt Thos N. Hartwell.
To Commr Pensions March 2 nd Dec 3

Washington, Nov. 1 st 1886 Gro. C. Whiting Esq. Sir
Enclosed you have the application of Elizabeth Dyer widow of Edward Dyer for Penury Land under the act of March 1855, on account of her husband's service in the War of the Revolution.
Edward Dyer made application for a pension under the act of 7 June 1832, for service under Capt. Webster of the Virginia, Regiment of Artillery. His declaration was made in Lake Co., Ohio.
On a roll in Genl. Office of Capt. Webster Co. dated Nov. 22, 1782. Dyer's name is found as having enlisted for one or 28 days service. This service seems to continue I believe until the end of that year, if so Dyer's service would be now be two and he would therefore be entitled under the act of 7 June 1832. I ask therefore that his claim may be examined in connection with this. Very Respectfully V. M. G. Gro. C. Whiting

Rev. Dr. [unclear] July 13 th 1851 Commission of Pensions. P.R.D.C.
My Dear Sir. Your letter of the 15 th inst. concerning the claim of Elizabeth Dyer for pen- sion is at hand.
Will not the pay which has been forwarded to substantiate her claim for pension be sufficient to substan- tiate her claim for Bounty Land application for which is now before you? The number of which application is 130,178 dat March 3 rd 1855.
Please let me hear from you at early day. I believe Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant W. N. Hartwell oh deep thanks that the claim for land has been allowed. A. above 50/55

I know all men by these presents: That Elizabeth Dyer of London, Province of Upper Canada, have made, constituted and appointed, and by these presents do make, constitute and appoint Thomas H. Hartwell of Detroit, State of Michigan - my true and lawful Attorney for me, and in my name place and stead to prosecute my claim against the Government of the United States for Pension on account of services rendered by my deceased husband Edward Dyer in the Revolutionary War, giving and granting unto my said Attorney full power and authority, to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done, in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation,

hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney or his Attorney Attorney Substitute, shall lawfully do, or cause to be done, by virtue thereof. And this Power is irrevocably granted to said Attorney. Witnesseth my hand and seal this 15 th day of July A.D. 1855. Elizabeth Dyer
A. B. Albin D. Morrison
Elizabeth Dyer In matter of Pension for Rev. Dyer
Widow ofatty
J. A. Hartwell Debt

Elizabeth Dyer. In matter of claim for Rev. pension
Power of Atty
J. A. Hartwell Debt

Ohio Oct 15 32 Dear Dyke
Hon. Jos. Edwards Com. Prison Washington D.C.
STZ

Rainsville Lake Co Ohio April 26. 1823
Wm J. L. Edwards Com. Pension
Enclosed please find Declaration of Edward Dyer to obtain a Pension which please examine & if allowed forward as proper Certificate - or such information as may enable us to supply what is wanting if disallowed - Very Respectfully Richard O. Strong

Ed Dyer Ohio Sept 32
FREE
Hon. Samuel L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Pineville Lake Co O April 21 st 1845-
Hon. James L. Edwards Dear Sir,
Edward Dyer an old Revolution- ary soldier, some time since, perhaps two years ago, applied for a pension. And the only difficulty in the way of his obtaining it, was, that the muster roll did show that he had served over four months. But he says that he was with the recruiting officer two months before he joined his company. The instructions from your Office were that he should go before our Court and make oath to that fact, with a clergyman to make oath to his acquaintance &c &c - which instructions were complied with. The Affidavits were forwarded by W. S. Osborn Esq r the Attorney, first em- ployed by the Old Gentleman, And Osborn says that he cannot tell him anything more about it- more about it. The Old Gentleman is extremely so- licitous to learn how the matter is disposed of. He has been heretofore able to support himself, although I believe about 83 years old. He now is declining and feels more in fear of being dependent. If you will please write me how the matter now stands you will very much oblige the Old Gentleman and Your Humble Servt. E. A. Paine

Y. Writ July 18 th 1855
Dear Col. P. Marks.
Sir.
Enclosed is a Power of Attorney from Elizabeth Dyer to act as her attorney in procuring the Pension money to which she may be entitled as widow of Edward Dyer decd a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
M rs Dyer states that her husband Edward decd made application about fifteen years ago for a pension. Please inform me why a pension was not granted and what further proof is required.
Yours truly T. K. Hartwell

Locke N.Y. August 28 th 1856 To the Commissioner of Pensions
Please recognize Geo. L. Ames Esq. of Washington D.C. as agent to examine the claim of Mrs Elizabeth Dyer widow of Edward Dyer formerly of Painesville Ohio of which case I am the Attorney
Your Obt Servt
L. Matthey